House Leader - Deva Alemi 11PA

House Champion - Matthew Rice (see below)

School value - Creativity

House trip opportunity 

Pat Albeck profile

Pat Albeck, was a prolific, gifted designer of printed textiles whose genius for flat pattern also took her into design for ceramics, wallpapers and a whole range of merchandise for the National Trust. At Beverley High school  Pat had an excellent art teacher who focused on pattern-making and calligraphy. She spent four years at Hull College of Arts and Crafts at a time when ex-servicemen were flooding art schools, inspiring in their seriousness and determination and in 1950 won a scholarship to the RCA in London, to study printed textile design. From the start she found art materials inspiring, using all types of paper, often for cut-outs and collage, paints, fine inks applied by brush, and pens – including, by the 60s, felt-tips.

Related links 

Pat Albeck overview (by Miss Brownell) https://youtu.be/zf10JcT0LUs

The Guardian – Obituary - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/15/pat-albeck-obituary

Interview with Pat Albeck – Desert Island Disks - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05mpx0h

An interview with Pat Albeck’s son – Matthew Rice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO89252JdH8

House Champion - Matthew Rice  

Matthew Rice is Pat Albeck's son. He paints, writes and runs courses in the summer which utilise his garden, which is the focus of the rest of his time. Over his career he has published 11 books on architecture, designed many millions of mugs for the business he ran with his then wife Emma Bridgewater, and illustrated for Country Life magazine. His interests in architecture have led to a series of charity roles in that area. Matthew grew up in a household of designers and now lives in Oxfordshire where he paints and writes.